This year's annual Human Rights in the U.S. Symposium/CLE will explore the relevance of human rights norms in efforts to advance racial justice and address historical and ongoing racism,...
Updated: April 13, 2020
On October 31, 2009, after nearly eight years of unlawful imprisonment at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Ahmad Abdulahad, Abdulghappar Abdulrahman and Zafar Arslan, ethnic Uighurs from far western...
Updated: February 16, 2010
February 2, 2023We are thrilled to share this news: Center for Constitutional Rights client Majid Khan was transferred from Guantánamo to Belize today. He is the first “high-value” detainee to be released, and the...
The 2nd Circuit Court’s ruling granting a delay to NYPD stop-and-frisk reforms and removing the presiding judge from the Floyd v. City of New York case is a gross violation of justice for the...
Updated: November 5, 2013
July 28, 2015The Navy is investigating complaints about a heightened risk of cancer at part of the military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.The reported uptick in cancer diagnoses is among people working on...
September 20, 2015It was August 2002. My partner Jan Adams and I were just beginning our annual pilgrimage to Massachusetts to visit my father and stepmother. At the check-in line at San Francisco International...
March 17, 2016This past February, President Obama delivered his official Guantanamo Bay closure plan to Congress, seven years after he first issued an executive order to close the detention center. If the plan is...
November 20, 2017On Nov. 3, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) informed the court’s Pre-Trial Chamber, “[T]here is a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity...
A group of predominantly U.S. Black and Brown social justice leaders - dubbed the #JusticeDelegation - recently returned from Israel/Palestine where they experienced Israel's occupation of Palestine...
Updated: June 1, 2018
Join us on Saturday, December 8th, 2018 at OutSummit for a riveting panel discussing on advancing LGBTI rights through the courts featuring Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney, Chinyere...
Updated: December 6, 2018
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